Dave Tippett
Dave Tippett
David G. "Dave" Tippettis a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and the current head coach of the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League. He is the sixth head coach of the Coyotes and the 21st coach in the Phoenix Coyotes/Winnipeg Jets franchise...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth25 August 1961
CityMoosomin, Canada
asking average bad chance expect goals good marty mistakes responsibility team
Are they bad mistakes by the goalie? No. But are they goals that we expect Marty to stop? Yes. And that's the difference. We can be an average or below-average goalie and just wallow along, or we can we be a really good one and give our team a chance to win, and that's the responsibility we need Marty to take. And he's done it in the past, so it's not as if we're asking for something that we don't know is there.
bad clean force marty neutral zone
It made them rework their plan. He's just so good. If we can clog up the neutral zone and force them into bad dumps, Marty will clean up a lot of that.
bad concerned goes planning player respond seemed serious skating talked
When any player goes down you get a little scare, but it's not bad at all. He just tweaked an old injury. When I talked to him between periods, he seemed to respond well, so I don't think it's serious at all. I just talked to him and he was planning on skating tomorrow, so there's nothing to be concerned about. I don't think there's much to evaluate.
bad focus giving habits puck taking talked team turning
The focus for our team is doing things right. We talked about habits ... That's not turning the puck over, that's not taking bad penalties, that's not giving outnumbered rushes. Those are habits you have to have in place going into the playoffs.
builds counter fans good hockey punch rivalry teams
I like it. Fans get to see two teams punch and counter punch a little bit., It builds up a rivalry and it makes for a very good hockey game.
since talked training
It's something we take very seriously. We've talked about that since the first day in training camp.
good playoffs
Everybody's healthy. Turco is going into the playoffs with no hiccups this year. So we feel good about where we're at.
against period start third
I'm disappointed we didn't play well from the start and do what we did in the third period for the whole game. We'll have to play a lot better against Ottawa.
excited
I'm more excited than nervous. It's been a long wait.
consider fighting forcing game job players primary rules skate taking teams using whose
I like what they're doing with the rules. The rules are taking players out of the game whose primary job is fighting and forcing teams to consider using players who can skate and play.
rules
I like what they're doing with the rules.
caught chances effort good less score
It was less about effort and more about execution. We had some good chances and didn't score and it caught up with us.
indication issue received
It was never an issue for me. I have never received any indication that anything had changed.
chance early good line picking
It's way too early to be picking out line combinations. And there's still a good chance the two could play on the same line.